Oh!!! I was commenting to my hubby @Acurewa about your most recent posts - the Buddha as a Community and This one! - and he asked if you, perhaps, have studied The Fourth Way by Ouspensky and Gurdjief? (I had to Google the latter name 😅)
You got me excited and this is synchronicity as its finest as I had been thinking, the past few weeks, about that "Asleep" state of mind that just gets me OUT of this plane. And how could I remain HERE. And if I'm trying to run away or if it REALLY is some kind of wall or veil that prevents me from living. Mindblowing.
I have already opened some tabs on my Browser to find out some information about MY Eneagram type. It kind of reminded me about the Kin Maya - have you read about that?
I'm not familiar with the people/schools of thought you mentioned. Have only the slightest knowledge of enneagram at this point, but very interested in learning more. I'm so glad to read your thoughtful comment though. Glad to follow you.
Hello, hello! Well, according to Wikipedia: "The Enneagram of Personality originates from the mapping of nine "ego fixations" on the enneagram by Oscar Ichazo. A book published in 2017, "The Enneagram: Living and Dead" by Plavan N. Go, attempts to verify it from the viewpoint of Gurdjieff's theories, showing the relevance of the nine personality types and their mapping on the enneagram based on the interpretation of the enneagram according to the Law of Three, the logic of three into four (O+C+N > H), and the Law of Seven."
Gurdjieff and later his disciple Ouspenski spoke about three main ways in the path of knowledge: The Fakir, the path of the body. The Monk, the path of faith and the feelings. And finally the Yogi, the path of the mind. The say that to peruse these ways one has to retire from the world, being impractical and mostly impossible for the common person.
But they also say this: that human evolution is not a natural process, that immortality is not something granted we get automatically. To evolve from this human state forward we have to work simultaneously on the mind, the feelings and the body. And thus the Fourth way, in which one work on oneself simultaneously on the mind, the feelings and the body with guidance from a master. With no retirement from society required, this way is apt for the common people.
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TYVM!
ENGAGEtokens.Fascinating! Thanks so much.